Gay Courter is the author of five best-selling novels with over three million copies in print: The Midwife (Houghton Mifflin, 1981) was listed as the 8th best-selling book of 1982. Other novels include River of Dreams (Houghton Mifflin, 1984), Code Ezra (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), Flowers in the Blood (Dutton, 1990), The Midwife’s Advice (Dutton, 1991). Three books have been on the NY Times hardcover bestseller list, and four have appeared on their paperback list. A sixth novel, Healing Paradise, is forthcoming and a seventh is in the works.